Dock Conundrum

I've been looking at three options lately for a floating dock arrangement with our dock.

1. A kit at Little River Marine to build something that lashes to our posts.
2. EZ Dock
3. AccuDock

A local boat company deals with EZ Dock but Kathleen didn't like the callback that we got after our inquiry. Bad customer service - ixnay that one.

Kim Holt, at AccuDock, has been great. He's used to working with kayakers and rowers. And he has sliding attachment assemblies that stabilize floating docks. He's been great to work with my kooky idea for an arrangement of a 30"x6' piece that would hinge at the end of another 30"x8' piece. We'd normally have the 6' piece on top of the 8' piece. When we get ready to go out, we flip the 6' piece to stick out from the end of our dock. We can then get on/off this section, with oars on one side sticking over the float, like rowers normally do.

After talking through more of this with Kathleen, we have a conundrum. My focus had been getting in/out of the shell on the water. But almost anything we do to make that easier, makes it harder to get the shell in/out of the water. Kathleen has limited ability to get her side of the boat up to her shoulder or over her head. I can address this with sling lifts and spanners, but it's still convoluted and will recall construction. And times a-wasting!